9.6 Zoom in to each of the light shafts The programmatic arrangement throughout the building is following the location of the shafts: from morning to evening in time and from bottom to top in position. This arrangement promotes a round-the-building movement within and therefore enhances interactions among the users. Some possible routes through of the building of various users of the architecture school are illustrated here. The morning foyer hosts a main entrance of the building. the inclined surfaces resulted from the sun vector study are interpreted as a living and unregulated staircase space with connections to cafes, morning meeting rooms, receptions and so on. It is fully light on from 0900 – 1000 during school times. The lunching hall captures the brightest sun light of the day. The high sun angles remain high throughout the hour of operation of the lunching hall (from 1230 -1330), and therefore it gives a steady slope for the shaft. This steady slope is interpreted as stepping dinning spaces and two sun-bathed picnicking platforms. The tea-time corridor is fully shone from 1530 - 1630. The sun vectors give the corridor a two-sided inclination base surface. Big openings are made for tea cafes and coffee houses. The remaining surface is paved with grass to make it a perfect space for afternoon chill-out in the sun. The golden soft lights penetrating through the evening gallery makes it a best place for exhibitions and enjoying a beer with the sunset after a day of work, for students, tutors, and even people from the neighborhood. The sloping nature of the floors inherited from the sun vectors is interpreted as a cascading gallery space.
Diagram 19: a day of the users’ movements with the sun